My own stupid mistake, granted, but if the filename doesn’t have an extension, it’s an easy error to make. Finally, I realized the problem: I’d open a text document, add some formatting, hit Save, and open the document later to find the formatting gone. It’s this sort of attention to detail that makes Write feel easy to use.Īt first, it seemed like Write didn’t save any formatting I applied to my documents. But saving a document as PDF through the Save dialog is more straightforward and intuitive. The ability to save as PDF is nice: any OS X program can do it, of course, via the Print dialog. In addition to its own proprietary format, Write lets you save documents as standard RTF, MS Word RTF, text, or PDF. So when I heard about Mariner Write 3.6, I decided to give it a shot. I don’t have a lot of familiarity with spreadsheet programs, but Calc let me do what I needed to do with a minimum of fuss.
Mariner’s answer to Excel, a spreadsheet program called Calc, got me out of a messy situation once before, when for some reason, which I no longer remember, I needed to work with more columns than Excel could handle. Not pleasant, but it seemed the best I could do. I eventually found myself doing all my writing in BBEdit and pasting the document into another application to add formatting later, if necessary. While I’m sure it’s chock full o’ features, the most important feature for any program is that it not get in the way of whatever work I’m trying to do.
The obvious choice, Microsoft Word, was painfully bloated and complicated to use. I had been using Nisus Writer on OS 9, but Nisus Writer Express 1.0, when it finally arrived, proved a terrible disappointment.
When I first started using Mac OS X, I couldn’t find a satisfactory word processor. Requirements: G3-based Mac with Mac OS 8.6 or Mac OS X
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